Research

Areas

The Centre's research activities are currently focussed on the following areas of regulation:

• Emerging Technologies (Nanotechnology, Biotechnology and ICT)
• Consumer Protection
• Privatisation
• Public Private Partnerships
• Regulatory Enforcement and Corporate Compliance
• Enforcing Competition Law
• Essential Servicces (Electricity, Gas and Telecommunications)
• Resources (Water and Fisheries)
• Public Accountability
  

Projects

The following are ongoing projects:

Australian Research Council (ARC) – Discovery

• A Cancer on our Economy - An Empirical Interdisciplinary Study of the Criminalisation of Serious Cartel Conduct in Australia, (Parker)
• ARC Australian Research Fellowship and Discovery Project funding for "The Impact of ACCC Enforcement, (Parker)
  

HDR student research

Reconceptualising tax policy: the VAT idea and its global spread

• Performance auditing: a crowded and contested space
• Consumer policy: pay day lending
• Social regulation: occupational health and safety
• Balancing the rights of investors against financial planners interests
  

Affiliated faculties

Law

• Castan Centre for Human Rights Law
• Centre for the Advancement of Law and Mental Health

 Arts

• School of Political and Social
• School of Geography & Environmental Science

Business and Economics

• Department of Business Law and Taxation
• Asia Pacific Business Regulation Group

Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

• Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine